15/03/2021
FLATULENCE AND ITS HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS:
●China Off: When there is flatulence in whole of the abdomen, flatulence distension almost to bursting. Worse from fish, fruit and wine.
●Carbo Veg: When there is flatulence in the upper part of the abdomen, causing oppression of the breathing, or sharp pains about the chest. Bowels irregular or loose. Tympanitis when flatus is due to decomposition of food.
●Lycopodium: When there is flatulence in the lower part of the abdomen, worse in the evening between 4 and 8 P.M. Everything he eats turns into wind. Little things annoy and distress. After a mere mouthful, he becomes flatulent and distended. Discharge of flatus from the va**na.
●Raphanus: When the wind is located around the navel which is difficult to pass and is painful.
●Carbolic Acid: Flatulent distension, causing frequent sighing and belching.
●Nux Mosch: Flatulent dyspepsia where everything turns into wind.
●Chamomilla: Flatulence which is relieved by eructations.
●Aloe: Flatus offensive, burning, copious; much flatus with small stool. Rumbling and cramp in abdomen before and during stool. The hard stool falls out without being noticed. Rumbling in abdomen is so great that it can be heard by anyone in the room. It seems as if the abdomen would burst on account of flatulence.
●Lac Can: Escape of gas from the va**na.
●Sarsaparilla: Escape of gas when urinating; the urine flows with a loud noise.
●Oleander: Passing of stool with flatus.
●Calc. Iod: Eructations empty, fetid, bitter, putrid, causing sore pain in epigastrium and chest, followed by sticking pain in stomach, contractive pain in epigastrium tacking away the breath, collection of wind in epigastrium which is sensitive to touch.
●Fel Tauri: Gurgling and rumbling motions in abdomen; odourless and tasteless eructations; tendency to sleep after eating.
●Castoreum: Abdomen distended with flatus; dragging in the groins. Cutting about the navel, better by pressure. Green mucus stools which burn. Nervous colic. For children suffering from green stools in summer.
●Allium Cepa: Indigestion, vomiting and flatulency in children; offensive flatus doubling up with pain, whooping cough.
●Homarus: Awakened in the night to pass wind.
●Argentum Nit: Flatulent with distension to bursting; scarcely getting relief from passing or eructations.
●Cocculus: When the retention afflatus results in tympanitis.
●Lycopersicum: Great flatulency of abdomen particularly between 10 A.M. and 11.30 A.M. with thirst for large quantities of water.
●Lachesis: Abdomen hot, sensitive. Painful distension, flatulence; cannot bear pressure. Frequent emission of flatus. Relieved by eructations.
●Pulsatilla: Hard distension of abdomen. Colic often accompanied by vomiting and diarrhoea. Constriction as from a stone extending to bladder. Bad effects of eating fatty foods, pastry, fruits etc.
●Nux Vomica: Bad effects of alcohol, coffee and sedentary life. Pressure of wind upward, obstructing breathing, oppression of chest as of stones in stomach. Constipation with ineffectual urging.
Compiled by
Syed Sameer S
